plank floor

American  

noun

Shipbuilding.

1. a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.

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Example Sentences

Then, finally, she remembered the Bunty Club—not all the funny detail but the actuality of it, the clandestine meetings in the shed, crouching on the plank floor among all those dangerous tools they weren’t supposed to go near, the splintery walls fragrant with creosote, her arms wrapped tight around scabbed knees, feeling scalded and enthralled by what was forbidden.

From The New Yorker

The pine plank floor threatened to buckle.

From Los Angeles Times

Under the guidance of Mr. Lim’s wife, Sasook Youn, the dining room has been done in what we now recognize as the all-purpose Modern Asian style — a long banquette of blond wood against one wall, a dining counter facing another wall, and a long communal table with benches running down the middle, all of them sitting on a plank floor.

From New York Times

Garrison followed the East Pointers to the Cultural Exchange Pavilion, where the plank floor shook as people old and young, bald and tattooed, bounced and danced in time to the music.

From Seattle Times

But the old plank floor worn smooth by countless tapping feet is gone, replaced by a new hardwood version.

From Seattle Times